I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
J. D. SALINGERListen, if you’re not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.
More J. D. Salinger Quotes
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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.
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Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People never notice anything.
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People are mostly hot to have a discussion when you’re not.
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I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
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That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
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You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it’s a stupid question.
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